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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly all the mystery around Shohei Ohtani's unprecedented free agency was revealed over the last week, yet baseball fans kept sniffing around on a most fuzzy question.

Just who was the pup sitting on Ohtani's lap when he was voted AL MVP for the second time last month?

Fans speculated the dog's name could have been a hint at his intentions — What if the pooch was named Dodger? Or Giant? Or Blue Jay?

All a Decoy, turns out.

Introduced by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday after agreeing to a $700 million, 10-year deal, Ohtani revealed that the brown and white dog who joine...